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The idea, proof of concept and early generations of the cmgui web browser extension for the Mozilla platform were developed by ZEST_. The project was code named ZINC_. 

ZEST released the source code of ZINC under open source license for the benifit of the `Physiome Project`_

Andrew Miller, employed at the Bioengineering Institute, took the development lead of ZINC and re-engineered it, resulting in mozCmgui.

Shane Blackett, took that, renamed it back to ZINC and reimplemented it without CORBA but maintaining the same interfaces.

Peter Bier has been adding interface components to support image processing in the Digitiser_.

In November 2007 ZINC was accepted as a `public firefox addon`_


ZINC is now maintained collaboratively by: 

* ZEST_ (offering commercial support)

* Shane Blackett

* Peter Bier

.. _ZEST: http://www.zestgroup.com
.. _ZINC: zinc
.. _Physiome Project: http://www.physiome.org.nz
.. _Digitiser: http://cmiss.bioeng.auckland.ac.nz/development/examples/a/digitise
.. _public firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5764